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TIL: There were Twin Ancient Cultures On Opposite Sides Of The Pacific

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wLyvP TIL, Mark Hamill's first industry work was at age 22 as a voice actor in an animated spin-off of I Dream Of Jeannie which aired in late 1973.
b9pQQ TIL Jayne Mansfield died in a car crash in 1967 aged 34. Her car hit a tractor, killing her instantly. After her death, the NHTSA recommended requiring an underride guard on all tractor-trailers. In America the underride guard is sometimes known as a "Mansfield bar".
6EEM8 TIL mixing diet soda with alcohol will get you drunker than using a sugar-based option.
XEXlk TIL that some people can see into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum when they have their lens removed from cataracts (called aphakia), and that UV color is described as a pale whitish-blue. This is why Claude Monet, who became aphakic, began painting w/ more blue post-surgery! Weird!!
KYAMR TIL that when Jack Webb, most known as Sergeant Joe Friday in the TV & radio police procedural Dragnet, died. Friday’s badge number in the LAPD (714) was retired and, Webb was buried with full police honors.